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Chapter 779: His Final Battle

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released: —

Summary

A black-blade swordsmanship flashback opens the chapter: a black-bladed master lectures a drinking pupil that a sword infused with Haki will not break, that every nick must be treated as a mark of shame, and that “every weapon can be turned into a black blade like mine” — forbidding the pupil liquor until he masters the feat (strongly read as Zoro’s Kuraigana-Island training under Mihawk, the speakers unnamed on-page). In the present, Fujitora (Issho) uses his gravity to float away the falling debris of Pica’s bisected stone colossus so no evacuees in Port Town Acacia are harmed; word spreads that “Sir Pica’s down,” and Zoro is mobbed with thanks for cutting the giant statue with a single sword. The Tontatta dwarves detonate the underground SMILE factory (“Destroy da factory dat tormented us!!!”), Leo’s squad recovers Princess Mansherry, who immediately wants to heal the wounded, and Viola/Robin tally the remaining Donquixote powers down toward two. Atop the resistance’s hopes ride “Lucy” (Luffy) and “Traffy” (Law); Sabo races through the outer tower to reach Luffy. The chapter’s emotional core is Luffy’s “final battle” with Bellamy: dying and falling apart, Bellamy keeps attacking to die a death that might make Doflamingo remember him; Luffy insists Doflamingo engineered this disposal, calls Bellamy “the only OTHER man I ever respected,” and — after Bellamy thanks him “for calling me a friend” — Bellamy turns his last spring not on Luffy but at Doflamingo himself. Doflamingo, waiting atop the palace, taunts that the “wild beast” Luffy should hurry up before he sees Law’s “dead body.”

New reveals

• Pica’s colossus is confirmed bisected; the city learns a Supreme Officer has fallen (page 4).
• Fujitora’s gravity is used defensively — making collapsing-statue debris “float away” so no evacuee is harmed (page 4).
• The underground SMILE factory is blown up by the Tontatta dwarves (pages 5–8).
• Mansherry is recovered alive and immediately offers her healing power to the wounded land (pages 7–8).
• Luffy asserts Doflamingo’s “kill Straw Hat / become a full officer” order was always a disposal: “Don’t you think he KNEW this would happen?” — the “set you free” promise was a lie (page 14).
• Bellamy fully recants his idol (“I chose the wrong man to idolize… how pitiful that makes me”) yet resolves to “see that choice through to its end,” turning on Doflamingo (pages 17–18).
• Doflamingo, atop the palace, declares Law’s “dead body” awaits and baits the “wild beast” (Luffy) to come up (page 19).
• SBS (Vol 78 Question Corner, page 20): Crocodile age/timeline — 16 years ago Law was 10, Doflamingo 25, Crocodile 30; Crocodile joined the Seven Warlords in his early twenties, challenged Whitebeard and lost, then set his ambitions on Alabasta. (Specialist-owned; flagged for SBS cross-link.)

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

Luffy · Bellamy · Doflamingo · Zoro · Fujitora · King Riku · Sabo · Koala · Mansherry · Leo · Rebecca · Violet · Nico Robin · Trafalgar Law (referenced, off-page) · Pica (defeated, referenced) · Mihawk (flashback, unnamed/inferred) · Tontatta dwarves · Donquixote Family · Revolutionary Army · Dressrosa · Acacia

Notable panels

• Pages 1–2 — Color double-spread: reader-request art “Let’s go for Pirate Festival” — the Straw Hats (Sanji, Robin, Brook, Luffy, Nami, Zoro in a “GSM” shirt) at a feast. Decorative; not foreshadowing.
• Page 3 — The black-blade / Haki lecture flashback (kettle boiling, master in silhouette, drinking pupil): “Every weapon can be turned into a black blade like mine.”
• Page 4 — Fujitora floats the bisected colossus’s debris away; “Sir Pica’s down!!!”; “Port Town Acacia.”
• Pages 5–7 — The SMILE factory explosion (“KABO OOOM!!!”) and the dwarves’ jubilation.
• Pages 13–16 — Luffy’s punch lands on the charging Bellamy (“WRAK!! / OM!!!”) — a Dressrosa rematch echo of the Mock Town one-punch.
• Pages 18–19 — Double-spread: Bellamy’s final spring redirected — “DOFLAMINGOOO!!!!”
• Page 19 — Doflamingo atop the palace: “I hear a wild beast howling… he’ll be so surprised, Law… once he sees… your dead body.”
• Page 20 — SBS Vol 78 Question Corner (Crocodile timeline answer).

Open questions raised

• Does Bellamy’s redirected spring reach Doflamingo, and does Bellamy survive his “final battle”?
• Is Law actually dead, or is Doflamingo bluffing to bait Luffy?
• Can Mansherry’s healing keep pace with a still-shrinking Birdcage?
• (Swordsman seed) When and how does Zoro turn an ordinary blade black with Haki, as the master taught?